Dow the rabbit hole I go, is it pronounced as S.A.D or “sad”. If it’s each letter (like CIA or FBI) it’s an initialism not an acronym; the latter should be pro

Dow the rabbit hole I go, is it pronounced as S.A.D or “sad”. If it’s each letter (like CIA or FBI) it’s an initialism not an acronym; the latter should be pronounced as a word. Which befuddles my industry joke of TLA (three letter acronyms) since it is pronounced as T.L.A. Not “tella”